Top Cities for Bed Bugs

If you're planning a weekend getaway to Omaha or Minneapolis anytime soon, you may want to read this.

Just looking at this creature gives me the heebie-jeebies. Orkin has released their "Bed Bug Cities List." This is not a Top 50 list anyone wants to be on.

The list released by Orkin ranks the cities by the number of bed bug treatments Orkin performed from January to December 2013, along with any shift in ranking compared to January to December 2012.

Chicago

Los Angeles (+1)

Columbus, Ohio (+3)

Detroit (-2)

Cincinnati

Cleveland/Akron/Canton (+2)

Dayton (+4)

Washington D.C. (-1)

Denver (-5)

Indianapolis (+6)

Richmond/Petersburg, Va. (+1)

Raleigh/Durham/Fayetteville, N.C. (+3)

Dallas/Ft. Worth (-4)

Syracuse, N.Y. (+7)

Atlanta (+14)

Houston (+2)

New York (-7)

Seattle/Tacoma (-5)

San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose (-5)

Boston (+2)

Milwaukee (-2)

Miami/Ft. Lauderdale (+3)

Nashville (+17)

Pittsburgh (+12)

Charlotte (+18)

San Diego (+6)

Baltimore (-7)

Phoenix (+7)

Cedar Rapids/Waterloo, Iowa (+4)

Charleston/Huntington, W. Va. (+1)

Knoxville, Tenn. (-4)

Louisville, Ky. (-2)

Grand Rapids/Kalamazoo, Mich. (+5)

Hartford/New Haven, Conn. (-8)

Champaign/Springfield, Ill. (+13)

Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville, S.C. (+11)

Omaha, Neb. (-20)

Buffalo, N.Y. (-10)

Lincoln/Hastings/Kearney, Neb. (+2)

Lexington, Ky. (-16)

Sacramento/Stockton/Modesto, Calif. (+4)

Colorado Springs/Pueblo, Colo. (-19)

Albany/Schenectady/Troy, N.Y. (-1)

Minneapolis/St. Paul (-10)

Honolulu (-8)

Toledo, Ohio

Peoria/Bloomington, Ill.

Davenport, Iowa/Moline, Ill.

New Orleans

Kansas City

If you want to check out a hotel before you put down your suitcase, check out the Bed Bug Registry. It's a public database of user-submitted bed bug reports. Remember, like all "user-submitted" reviews/reports, some of these could be fake reports. Use your better judgement.